Aug 212018
 

It’s the big day, our first Kickstarter! Kinda a weird feeling, knowing what you don’t know. Will it fund? Will people like it? Aw heck, who knows? In any case it’s great to have finally gotten to this point in the whole process.

Click here to go to the

Kickstarter!

It all started in December of 2016 when I hired Rob Stanley to write and Rick Alves to draw ‘Dr. Fizz’. That book was a crash course in making an independent comic book. We had a couple of speed bumps, including a work stoppage due to my being laid off from work for two months. The time off at home was fun though.

Still, we worked hard and eventually finished ‘Dr, Fizz’. And around that time, Rei and Steve were finishing up pages for this book, Sissonne.

Both books take place in ‘Grand City’, a place that had so much crime that the mayor got a law passed to basically legalize vigilantes. Or, as we call them, superheroes. Some are indeed super, other not so much. Fizz and Sissonne are sort of in the middle type of heroes. They won’t be saving the world anytime soon, but Grand City is safer for them. This city needs them, and more like them.

Jun 072018
 

Not sure what was going on but the media site was sort of down. The individual pages looked OK, but the main page was returning some fatal error. Luckily, deactivating some plugins and reactivating them did the trick, and it’s working now, but still. I don’t like seeing my site down. 

Seems like I keep saying I need to blog more, but I suppose I am just too busy. Or I’m just telling myself that because of another cause I don’t want to think too much about. But since I an here, here it is: Facebook sucks. 

I know, what does that have to do with my blog. Well, I just don’t post almost anything to Facebook anymore, unless it is about my comic books or something cute or funny. I keep starting to write something, then just delete it because A) All I get in my feed anymore is diatribe, mob building who-dunnits and posts telling me how to think and reminding me that things are different now and commonly held opinions from a few years ago now make you an asshole and die! die! die! Or, B. But mostly it’s A. So, I have decided to just stop posting about pretty much anything, and I guess it has bled over to here. 

I usually avoid politics on this blog, so it’s not that, it’s just the idea that no one cares what I happen to think of the latest Marvel movie, right? So, maybe I need to reexamine why I post at all, what I might use or need the site for. Or maybe I just need a beer. Meh. Oh, did I mention I fixed the site?

May 252018
 

I want to give a shout out to a Kickstarter running right now that some of my readers might be able to use, a comic book writing tool called Superscript.

While there are many programs out there to specifically draft screenplays, there has not been a successful comic book writing program to date that I am aware of. There was one back in ’13 on Kickstarter, but it failed to deliver.

Here is the blurb and bits:

If you haven’t heard of it yet, Superscript is the software that comic book writers have been waiting for, which …

• automatically formats your script as you type
• automatically numbers page and panel headings
• tallies up dialog words per bubble, panel and page
• checks your spelling and autocompletes your custom fictional words and character names
• lets you embed images and comments
• exports to a variety of file formats
• allows you to choose between several popular script formatting conventions when exporting
• works on Windows and macOS

I’ve been using the program o my sequel to Bluebird, something I’m calling ‘The Roots of Glasir’, and so far I’m digging the program a lot. The shortcuts really are handy, and the output being in the correct format helps so, so much. About the only thing wrong so far are my typos. And Plot holes, lots of plot holes.

Normally, I’m not a fan of paying for ‘subscription’ software, but the lifetime license is not a bad deal at all, and on the plus side you can try the pre-release version today, for free (7 Day Trial).

I’m recommending it, and am a backer as well. Give it a look, let me know what you think.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jpsilva/superscript#

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